Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

Never doubt yourself!

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

The president made very clear to leaders in Congress from right after the election that repealing and replacing Obamacare will be the first priority of this administration.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.